The results of inbreeding can be very distressing to witness. In this Instagram post, we see a captive lion with skull ...

Climate change is rapidly melting sea ice in the Arctic, causing "large-scale changes" in how polar bears are able to function, according to a new study. In Norway, scientists found, the bears are ...

'Don’t get married with your sister or your mother,' warns one of the authors of a study of the Habsburg jaw You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

Pure-bred dogs have been regarded as superior to crossbreeds or what some people refer to as mutts. However, we now ...

Inbreeding is where cousins and other close relatives have children together. Most cultures have strong taboos against it, primarily because of the increased risk of birth defects. Here’s why that ...

Experimental studies often find that inbreeding depression is more severe in harsh environments, but the few studies of in situ wild populations available to date rarely find strong support for this ...

Signs of Inbreeding Among SoCal Mountain Lions Raise Extinction Fears Researchers have long had genetic evidence of inbreeding, but the malformed sperm is the first evidence that inbreeding is ...

The Habsburg jaw — the prominent facial deformity that affected the European royal family of the same name — was the result of 200 years of inbreeding, a study has found. Geneticists and surgeons ...

Inbreeding depression is the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals. Large effects are documented in wild animal and plant populations, as well as in humans. Intercrossing ...

Since their discovery 163 years ago, palaeontologists have been bickering about what killed off the Neanderthals. In 1920, Marcellin Boule – a French palaeontologist who helped popularise the ...